TY - JOUR T1 - Impact of disease activity outcome measures reporting in the medical records of patients with axial spondyloarthritis on the retention rates of biological treatment: the example of secukinumab use in daily practice in France JF - RMD Open JO - RMD Open DO - 10.1136/rmdopen-2021-002106 VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - e002106 AU - Maxime Dougados AU - Julien Lucas AU - Emilie Desfleurs AU - Cédric Lukas AU - Alain Saraux AU - Anne Tournadre AU - Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand AU - Daniel Wendling AU - Philippe Goupille AU - Pascal Claudepierre Y1 - 2022/03/01 UR - http://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/8/1/e002106.abstract N2 - Objectives To estimate the frequency of reporting composite indices evaluating axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) disease activity in daily practice and to assess its impact on the secukinumab (SEC) retention rate.Methods Study design: Retrospective, multicentre. Data collected: (1) Recommended composite indices: Bath Ankylosing Spondyltitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) +C reactive protein or Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS) at the time of initiation of SEC and at least once during the first year of follow-up; (2) Drug retention rate: percentage of patients still on SEC over time according to whether at least one recommended composite index had been optimally reported.Results A recommended composite index has been collected in 22% of the 906 enrolled axSpA patients. The percentage of patients still on treatment after 1, 2 and 3 years of follow-up was greater in those for whom at least one composite index had been optimally reported (respectively, 64% (57–71) vs 57% (54–61), 55% (48–62) vs 41% (38–45) and 52% (44–59) vs 38% (34–42), log rank test, p=0.016) with a lower risk of SEC discontinuation for these patients (HR: 0.70 (95% CI 0.5 to 0.88), Cox model, p=0.003).Conclusion This study suggests that reporting of recommended composites indices for monitoring axSpA might be associated with higher retention rates of biological therapies. ER -